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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. At what age did Isaac Albeniz hide on a ship crossing the Atlantic to Puerto Rico and play in his French musketeer costume for passengers?
2. What nickname did the pianist Vladimir de Pachmann acquire?
3. How old was Isaac Albeniz when he debuted in 1864 Spain?
4. How old was Glenn Gould when he died?
5. Vladimir de Pachmann dressed in a smelly, old gown he claimed was whose?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Vladimir Horowitz's piano career begin? What was the public reaction to the pianist?
2. Who were the forerunners of modernism? How did modernism differ from romanticism?
3. When did Glenn Gould retire? What emotional disturbances did he suffer from?
4. What nickname did Leopold Godowsky earn? Why?
5. How is the style of Sergei Rachmaninoff described by the author? Where was Sergei Rachmaninoff from?
6. What relationship did Arthur Rubinstein and Vladimir Horowitz share? How did they differ in performance styles?
7. Who was Vladimir de Pachmann? What was his expertise and namesake?
8. Who was Artur Schnabel and what was his expertise in music? How is Schnabel described?
9. What Polish pianists are described in Chapter XXIV, The Chopinzee, the Buddha, and Others in addition to de Pachmann and Godowsky?
10. What was the impact of the Russian Revolution of 1917 on music?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare the styles, philosophies, and techniques of Anton Rubinstein and his student Josef Hofmann. What style was Hofmann a forerunner of?
Essay Topic 2
When and where was Louis Moreau Gottschalk born? Where did he rise to fame? When did he make his American debut and where?
Essay Topic 3
Describe the influences of Friedrich Chopin on romanticism, piano technique, and style. When was Chopin born? When did he debut? When did he die?
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